Nikki Null

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FEBRUARY 28, 2026
Don't forget to look up as Necron's Grand Cross sears across the sky, reminding us to set the Loudmouth, Locomotion, Jelly, Insomniac, Body Temp, and Clear Headed support abilities so we don't have to do the entire Trance Kuja fight all over again

Phrases I never expected to find myself using to describe the book I'm writing: "Chekhov's cryptid vlogger"

It's so obvious now—Strunk & White must have used AI to develop 'The Elements of Style' back in 1919 or whenever!

🏹 >>- – — > emdash haters

I've been on a Mac pressing alt+shift+hyphen for over 20 years and I'm not going to stop just because the word guessing calculators have also started using them.

I also had an epiphany about a possible sequel to Our Simulated Selves. I didn't want to mess with OSS again unless I found a really good angle, but today I thought of the perfect title for a follow-up. I'm gonna keep that title to myself for now, but I hope I can write a book worthy of it someday.

Still making slow progress on that paranormal T4T farm romance novel. I'm finally hitting that satisfying point in the draft where the plotlines all fully collide. It also helps that I'm finally approaching the strange, twisty phase of the story that is more in my wheelhouse.

Note that SBUX makes interest on all of that unspent cash in those accounts. Deleting the app without turning off auto-reloads and spending down the entire balance will just give them free interest on those unredeemed balances forever.

First turn off automatic card refills and spend down ALL existing card balances! You can buy one drink and tip the rest if you so desire. Starbucks makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year on INTEREST on the money they're holding for you. Your unspent money in their app is free money for them.

Of course, I thought of it as an absurdist, self-indulgent meta exercise inspired by Kaufman's "Adaptation", not something eerily predictive of a technology that was less than a decade away. Wish I'd written it now.

Here's hoping "Our Simulated Selves" didn't predict any near future technologies.

In a writing slump in 2014, I roughly outlined a prequel to my screenplay that would later become "Our Simulated Selves." It was titled 'The Scriptwriter' wherein the depressed coder Ren tried programming the supercomputer AI, TASA, to write a screenplay, yielding confusing slop and meta bullshit.

Oh, I will! The thing I love most about the Rankane dynamic is the agonizing slow burn, so I remember setting it down for a while when I saw how the time skip went. But I definitely will pick it up again sometime!

Oh, hey! I read the first four books of your Phoenix saga last year and loved them! I don't usually read a lot of fanfic but Rankane is everything to me, and you nailed them so well.

It is cracking me up that you somehow hadn't confronted your own business before writing all that!

Our Simulated Selves by Nikki Null A trans cyberthriller novel about a simulated apocalypse and recursive truths.

Sigh. Another year, another surprise $1600 dental emergency. Anyone know 320 people who want to buy a really cool trans sci-fi thriller for $4.99?

nikkinull.itch.io/oss

Kids these days are so close to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything... if only they knew how to multiply those damn numbers together

'Harder mode' narrows it down considerably because I love sci-fi and horror-adjacent stuff, but there are still so many films that would fit for me.

But none quite like Hundreds of Beavers. I have seen it so many times, but I could never get tired of this movie.

Vote for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Voting is open now for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Vote by Dec. 26th.

For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷

Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.

I feel the same reluctance to outright label myself with neurodivergence, not because those frameworks don't explain me or help me understand or manage myself, but because I don't want to take up space when others are affected by it more strongly. Why am I like this? Sigh.

For the last 10 years I've had recurring hip pain that flares up intermittently for weeks at a time, making it agonizing to sleep, walk, sit, or stand. And yet I hesitate to call it 'chronic pain' because it goes away sometimes and it feels like that label belongs to people who have it worse?

Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025 Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.

Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤

We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️

#tdor

Thank you for saying that! It was a really hard book to write, and I never really thought I'd reach anyone with a novel that's almost too twisty to talk about without spoiling anything. I'm so glad the book reached you and brought you joy!

Twelve hours remain in this bundle! If you've been sleeping on this, or if you're like me and you often wait until it's down to the wire to grab a sale, there's not much time left to snag 32 powerful trans books.

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Thanks for the interest in, boosts & purchases of this trans books bundle! (I've had to increase the goal multiple times 😄).

These books, some also including queer normative and or LGBTQIA+ joy, are available as this set for 4 more days.

🌈📚💙💕📚🪐 itch.io/b/3352/trans...

And on top of that, the moment you realize that *you* were being junctioned across time to help Laguna/Kiros/Ward? That blew my mind. Subtly setting up the 'time compression' theme as early as disc 1.

People often make fun of the orphanage plot twist, but the cost of using GFs is one of my favorite takes on a magic system in the entire series. You've made a hard bargain with forces you barely comprehend, without even worrying about the cost.

This bundle is still going strong 💖🫶🏻💖

Only four days left!

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Not gonna lie, I've been refreshing this submissions list weekly, deeply hoping someone might submit my novel 👀

Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itch.io The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits

Bundle made it halfway to goal in one day! If you haven't already checked it out, this is a great way to support 32 trans authors during Trans Awareness Month and get some phenomenal books in the process.

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Rewire your brain, defy fate, hack gods.
#queersff #translit 🌈📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I got that comment on my book as well, and it had me glowing for weeks. We need more egg-cracking literature!

Check it out, my book is a part of this incredible bundle!

A lot of these books were already on my TBR list, and Trans Awareness Month is as good a time as any for a trans book marathon. I'll be reading as many of these as I can this month. Who's joining me?

Yep, trans is an adjective, woman is the noun! It's grammatically improper for the same reason we typically don't smash together "tallwoman," "oldwoman," or "gayman" into one word.

And as you say, the one-word version has recently become a subtle linguistic dogwhistle spread by right wing groups.